---
title: "Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-team-leader-manifesto-growing-effective-teams.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-team-leader-manifesto-growing-effective-teams.html"
published: "2012-06-15T20:10:03.667000+00:00"
updated: "2012-06-15T20:12:55.032000+00:00"
tags: ["Conference", "Growing People", "Video", "manifesto"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "The page for Roy Osherove's NDC Oslo 2012 talk on the Software Team Leader Manifesto; the embedded video is gone but a Vimeo link remains."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Video: The Team Leader Manifesto, Growing Effective Teams

Here is my talk from [NDCOslo 2012](http://ndcoslo.com/), two weeks ago. It details my current view and thoughts about the role of the team leader, and the manifesto is a good way to capture that.

A video was embedded here. It is no longer publicly available on Vimeo.

[Roy Osherove - The Software Team Leader Manifesto](http://vimeo.com/43612918) from [NDCOslo](http://vimeo.com/ndcoslo) on [Vimeo](http://vimeo.com/).

## Read next

- [Video: The Mistake at the heart of Agile - Michael Feathers, NDC 2011](https://www.5whys.com/articles/video-the-mistake-at-the-heart-of-agile-michael-feathers-ndc.html): A note about a Michael Feathers NDC 2011 talk on the mistake at the heart of agile, whose video is gone, tied to getting teams out of comfort zones.
- [Team Leader Manifesto - Take #3](https://www.5whys.com/articles/team-leader-manifesto-take-3.html): The third draft of the team leader manifesto, which defines a leader's success as the team's growth in self-organization and adds slack time to learn.
- [A Manifesto For Software Team Leaders - Take 1](https://www.5whys.com/articles/a-manifesto-for-software-team-leaders-take-1.html): The first draft of a manifesto for software team leaders, a list of leadership values open for reader comments, written ahead of the Stoos summit.

## Topic

- [Team Leader Manifesto](https://www.5whys.com/topics/team-leader-manifesto)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/